Van Bael & Bellis

Litigation and Arbitration, Competition, Trade

Associate Quentin Declève focuses on international litigation and arbitration, as well as on EU and national competition law and international trade law. He also represents clients before the EU Courts and before Belgian civil and commercial courts.

Quentin has been involved in key cases relating to restrictive measures and sanctions taken against individuals and against sovereign States by the European Union and the United Nations (Cases T-375/14 to T-378/14 on measures adopted by the European Union with regard to Egyptian citizens). Quentin also coordinates the defence of the Belgian State in disputes involving the sanctions adopted by the UN Security Council and the European Union against Libya.

Quentin also assists clients in the field of competition law, merger control and State aids both in administrative and court proceedings. In particular, he intervened in the procedure to annul the Decision of the European Commission concerning State aid implemented by Belgium in favour of the Duferco group.

Quentin also advised the Republic of Benin in discussions within Working Group III of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law to reform investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms.

From 2013 to 2015, Quentin worked part-time as a teaching assistant in EU Law for Professors François Van der Mensbrugghe and Nicolas de Sadeleer at Université Saint-Louis in Brussels.

Quentin speaks French, English and Dutch

Member of the Brussels Bar.

Brussels School of Competition, LL.M., 2014University of Ghent, Exchange programme, 2011University of Louvain, Master of Laws, 2011Saint-Louis University (USL), Brussels, Bachelor of Law, 2009